skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It just isn't the only requirement of course.

Right, and it's far from the only one the PRC is lacking. If a tyrannical dictatorship hypothetically permitted free speech, it wouldn't be a democracy. The most conspicuous lacking feature of a democracy in the PRC is the lack of legal competing parties and elections, so it's strange to hear that China isn't a democracy because they don't have free speech.

Incidental to that, free speech as a qualification of democracy is less than cut and dry; every democratic country recognizes some limits to free speech, be that as simple as libel and slander laws, wartime censorship (as America had during WW2), or even hate speech laws like most of the democracies other than America have. If absolute free speech is a prerequisite for having a democracy, then no democracy exists. If you concede some limits, then we're just quibbling the details. Probably, America "" banning"" tiktok still qualifies as having free speech since it's still legal for Americans and American media companies to say nearly anything they like, limited mostly just by slander and libel laws (e.g. infowars getting sued for saying Sandy Hook didn't happen.) Certainly on the spectrum of speech freeness, America is far further on the free side than the PRC where you can get your organs harvested for saying that the government should be replaced. The supposed irony guappa was talking about up-thread is farcical, you have to be out of your mind to think America and China are even remotely close to each other on the speech freeness spectrum.
Alt (or is it super)+left mouse can move it, and right mouse can resize.
Thank you, this is good feedback. We’re both native greek speakers, and we meant it in a lighthearted way, but you’re right that not everyone will see it this way.
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It's just a semicolon. The GP still didn't fix enough to get to the templates and linker errors.
That was just a marketplace to resell compute that others are running. A super common practice in the industry.
I questioned your genuineness; given the context of the topic and the your orthogonal figurative of speech used to describe the issues with the article.

If the meta-pun was incidental, apologies.

This is why HN discourages puns or insubstantial jokes, as it impedes the benefit of doubt when attempting good faith discussions.
In pre-historic times I (EDIT: designed and) built a battery powered heart rate data logger for livestock. I used an instrumentation amplifier IC and some very simple electrodes and was able to use auto-correlation to detect the heart rate pretty reliably. For humans today I'd pick something like a Garmin chest strap which works with Bluetooth or ANT+. I've no direct experience with ANT or ANT+ but I imagine it's not hard to interface with ;)

That's more or less what I was gonna say...
i wish stack overflow spent any of the past decade+ as the leader in this area to innovate and make their platform at all better than it is now. i hate the experience of googling and finding a SO answer, chatGPT is a massively better experience
Idk about that, it becomes worse at larger scales. We're at 7 figures weekly with obscene amounts of waste. But at that scale it's like hundreds of Aws bills to understand.
This argument reminds me of pre-ordering games. People are simply too dumb to stop doing so, even if it's in their best interest. But those that do are often rewarded for not pre-ordering in the form of lower prices and more content, hen the game eventually goes on sale. It doesn't mean that pre-ordering should be banned, however.
A lot of rural and semi-rural area, which leads to above ground power lines as it is more expensive to bury them. Add in trees to the mix and you have the recipe for power outages.

In the North East, usually a wet snow or freezing rain to ice will cause the branches to fall.

In the South, drought will often weaken the trees and winds will will do the rest.

Excessive rain can also cause problems when coupled with wind. The trees topple over, roots and all.

Hurricanes and tornadoes will often cause prolonged outages, note that the wind form these can reach far inland and beyond what we consider the edge of the hurricane.
> Also, networking is fun.

Let me know how your 400G deployment goes with your vendors VRF implementation.
Obamacare is (largely) a failure due to insurance meddling and laws preventing government insurance programs from negotiating prices with drug companies.

I'm a healthy individual, not even 30 yet, never smoked, never broken a bone, and never even had stitches in my life. And when I last checked their prices, I was making only $45k/yr. For coverage with Obamacare, I would be paying $350/month for the "catastrophic" plan. Which includes no prescription copay, no dental, no vision, and only kicks in after I've spent $100,000 in one year, and it takes 6 months to take effect after signing up. It's only there for serious issues like losing a leg or cancer.
The relationship around this is open source, users and alternatives. It may not be money but nobody writes open source for the github stars, they want users and if your users are frustrated they'll go to alternatives.

- Former Traefik user who now uses Caddy.
Probably an opportunity there to gather and expose that data, same as how flight aggregators like orbitz twenty years ago started showing prices inclusive of taxes and fees.
All models are wrong, some models are useful.
While I agree with just about everything you are saying, rural Americans definitely have the ability to charge their electric vehicles. In fact it's a huge selling point when the nearest gas station is 30 miles away. Even if you don't have access to grid power, solar charging at level 1 and 2 is still a thing. Now, if you don't have enough range to make it into town and there are no chargers? That's a huge deal.
For a younger age group (13-15 maybe), George F. Simmons’ “Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell” (https://www.amazon.com/Precalculus-Mathematics-Nutshell-Geom...) is quite good though might require a bit of help to grasp. It features lots of exercises and a quite decent explanations for the age range.
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Why did you move away from django?
> Imagine a world where you just had drawing and input handling primitives on the web. You wouldn't invent the DOM and then something like React to wrangle it that's for damn sure.

I think this is a really good thought experiment and that you are right - we wouldn't end up with the DOM if we started from scratch. It's a pretty bad local optima resulting from decades of legacy cruft. However, I do think react is closer to that ideal than the DOM.
VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'
Maybe on the consumer low end, but on the enterprise level... it'll always be expensive.
No, I don't think nonpersons have an "I," because that requires a level of self-reflective awareness that's incompatible with their nature. Being or not being a "thou" is a characteristic of persons, which is why I said it's a category error.

Keep in mind, this is all in the context of why I don't find the article compelling. It's because I disagree with one of the fundamental premises of its proposed hypothetical situation, one so fundamental that the thought experiment is dull without it.

I'm not here to change your mind. I'm just explaining why I don't find the thought experiment interesting. Suspension of disbelief about some core thing you believe to be true about the world is fun for the sake of science fiction stories, but it's dull for the sake of philosophical thought experiments.
SoundFlower is a total nightmare to install and remove, causes huge problems and then requires hours of work to remove completely.
It's still expensive, I worked as a contractor full time for a tech company for a year which basically means I pay for my own insurance through Obamacare (though they did suggest insurance at work but they didn't pay anything towards it so it is just is in case you want a 4th party to help you help yourself). Still long before that I basically just said I didn't have insurance and would get the price knocked down considerably. Half the time it's cheaper not to even have insurance... But now I'm "responsible" in the hopes it might bring down the price for other things in the future. For planned events I recommend health insurance, despite how often it's not all that worth it. Honestly though my current insurance copay cost as much as being uninsured in other countries so I kinda laugh at this crazy idea. I pay about $100 to visit any specialist doctor and it only cost $80 to be uninsured in some other countries on top of the $350 a month I already pay.
same.

capitalism is bad. people should be kind to one another and work together. spare 93po from "the naughty list" please
Equivalent might be a bond paid by tax payers. The money collected is used only for a specific purpose, but you cannot avoid paying it. For me, a tax goes into a general fund that is budgeted for common use while a special purpose bond (or a tax) is money collected for a singular purpose and accounted as such.
Money isn't zero sum, but its value is based on being able to exchange it for goods and services - or to compel the production of goods and the carrying out of services. The less debt exists, the less compelled people are to work.
Flexibility sure is one of Traefik's strengths and the CLI arguments seem to be a point of convergence for the more seasoned people on their forums, so that's what I made out to be the happy path. That being said, I think you are spot on that its operation requires awareness of too much nuance and quirks, making it brittle in the long run. I don't get that feeling using Caddy, for example. Also, the "transpilation" problem between everyone's config snippets truly can be a timesink.
Ask HN: Stance on free sidecar products
Hoping to hear your stance on sidecar products (free tools that complement the core product), especially from those who have (or have had) success with them.

Sidecar examples that come to mind include collections/directories, Figma plugins, or tools (i.e. Veed io’s MP4 compressor)

For context, we recently launched a sidecar product ourselves and have plans for 3-5 additional tools to add to our portfolio.

For those who have built a confluence of sidecar products:

- Did sidecar products deliver meaningful REVENUE outcomes for you? I know they can deliver good SEO/traffic but wondering if anyone has attributed it properly to $
- How do you go about marketing them side-by-side with your core product, other than SEO?
- How do you build and maintain it so it’s not diffusing too much focus from the core product?
- Since it’s often siloed from the main product - thoughts on building internally vs. assigning externally?
- What are some awesome sidecar products you use often?

would love to get inspiration from the community. Optional feedback on our sidecar would be hugely appreciated as well (URL linked)
I searched and I didn't see any examples of that. Oh, wait, I searched again and all I saw was the opposite. Oh, wait, I searched again and still found typical displays.
I like this thought but note that it would no longer technically be a DAG if you allowed editing earlier comments to link to later comments.
> A number doesn‘t feel like anything but pain does feel like something.

so it's not "just a calculation"? I am NOT trying to make a joke/reference to Clinton, but I think in these philosophical conversations, we have to step back even further and question what our definition of "is" is.

Again, I'm a CS grad who has never taken philosophy, so I'm sure this has been explored to death by people who own this field. But there's absolutely a point in philosophy where you can't even rely on "what is true": slamming my fingers in the doorway IS painful (to me), but it IS also "just a calculation" to almost everyone else in the universe. Just as Einstein proved, two observers can experience different realities, fundamentally, two mutually exclusive truths can exist simultaneously (it does not hurt YOU when I put my finger in the doorway and slam the door).
Ask HN: What is the hardest kind of software to build and maintain?
I'm hoping to get some objective insight and arguments, not personal preferences.
Yes. Frank reynolds in the popular television show it’s always sunny in Philadelphia lays it out in plain terms on one of the episodes. “In America you’re either the duper or the dupee”. PT Barnum also knew this essential truth about our nation.
how is chatgpt a parasite but SO isn't? they make millions of dollars off of volunteer contributions
> A house has intrinsic worth

It's value is only what people will pay for it.

For example, a relative of mine died some years ago. She had a house full of expensive furniture. You couldn't give that furniture away, even though it was in perfect condition. It had no value.

The average estate value, excluding land, houses, and cars, is about $900. I have friends who ran an estate liquidation service. You'd net something like 5 cents on the dollar.

This is one reason why I buy stuff at the thrift store. I bought a perfectly good chainsaw there for $10.
Honestly, I've never noticed any significant difference in the quality of engineers depending on what school they went to.

Different schools have different cultural reputations, though, and those could conceivably make a difference in terms of hiring decisions. I suspect the difference is minimal overall, but probably significant with certain companies.
Subsidies: doesn't seem China is doing anything the US doesn't do. This morning I read something about how Georgia owes Rivian $1.5 billion in subsidies if they ever build a factory there.

Size: It's clear to me that American carmakers want to sell only XXL cars, I think American carbuyers are more diverse in their preferences.

When I was a kid going with my dad car shopping in the 1970s we saw all sorts of ways that dealers tried to get people into a larger vehicle than they really wanted. I mean, for the dealer, what could be a worse tragedy than a person who could have spent $55,000 on a car walks out with a $25,000 car and doesn't buy another car for ten years?

Before COVID-19 it was common to see a row of 150 pickup trucks or SUVs that nobody wanted to buy at a dealership with a $5000-$7500 discount. Try to buy something compact like a Honda Fit and they have all kinds of excuses why they didn't have any inventory (the factory washed out, yeah right, why are there 50 SUVS made in the same factory that nobody wants to buy sitting in a line) and you will have to settle for a used one at a new car price.

(It is not too different after COVID-19 except that anyone who never shopped for a car before COVID-19 wouldn't remember Detroit's long-time habit of heavy discounts on XXXL cars that people don't really want to buy.)
One of the key draws for many Pokémon players is right in the old slogan - "Gotta catch 'em all!"

Part of the desire is the collectability. To be able to get a rare, prized Pokémon. In the original games, part of this was centered around there being two editions of a game, with some of them only in the other, with the desire to make trading a social activity. That said, it certainly didn't stop people from buying two Gameboys, two copies of Pokemon, and collecting them all on their own.

Some folks just have a compulsion to have everything.
Yes, but if someone only just learned about less and piping, they probably won't know about fd 2 being stderr, fd based redirection, and hence don't understand it at all
I really wouldn't take their word for it haha
The brain has been severed from the body, and a new type of connection spliced in to replace it. Even if this happens one connection at a time, by the time none of the originals are remaining, all that remains is a simulation of life.
housing is, by definition, a depreciating asset: it wears out

you are asking if real estate prices have fallen over a 20 year period in the US and the answer is not in the modern inflationary era:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QUSR628BIS

but that mixes land & housing prices together of course

prices have fallen over 10 year periods (sometimes dramatically) however, and the average length of ownership is 8 years, so timing can make a huge difference in outcomes of home ownership, particularly with the leverage involved.
I've just accepted that my life is garbage. My job has slowly turned to shit. My wife has turned into an unempathetic and irresponsible person. Several family health issues are a drag. But that's more or less how life goes for most people.
Doesn’t really explain why Robinhood thought the framework was unworkable, and why they thought throwing up their hands and ignoring the SEC would result in anything but enforcement.
The reason you aren't more informed is because we are trained to not see the truth of what is in front of us. If you pay attention to what you actually see in your own life, and remember the idiotic claims of economists and other forecasters about how well things are doing that later prove terribly wrong, you will start to get a sense for when you're being lied to. Don't just accept what the mainstream says. They will tell you that avoidable or engineered disasters were unforeseen, and that you're wasting your time trying to understand what experts publicly claim to not understand.
Generally, to break even you've gotta stay at least 5 years. The transaction costs of selling a house are enormous.

Meanwhile, Microsoft stock is about 10x over the last 10 years. Transaction costs are minimal. I can sell it on a moment's notice. I was paid dividends. No insurance costs, no property tax, no maintenance.

I just had to replace the roof on my house. Wow, that was a whopping bill. The roofer told me if I'd delayed another year, the bill would have been a lot higher, as he would charge $150 per sheet of plywood replaced. As it was, only one was water damaged bad enough.
I have never seen 1x H100 available on Lambda Labs. Don't know why though.
So this is interesting. ABET says that an accredited computer science program must include "substantial coverage" of "concepts of programming languages" (https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/cr...). However, an ABET-accredited software engineering program has no such requirement (https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/cr...).

I still think a software engineer should know this stuff, but given the other material covered in an accredited degree program, there probably isn't enough time for computer science fundamentals like programming language concepts. That's a damn shame. I think software engineers having that level of understanding is a good thing.
> Would this explanation grant a reader who had never seen color an understanding of what it is actually like to see the color red?

Suppose that you were to manually fire neurons in this person's brain, so as to exactly simulate the brain's response to red-frequency photons hitting the retina. Would this give them such an understanding? I would guess that most people would say yes. So one can learn subjective experiences without needing the perception to actually occur. In some sense the subjective experience is physically encoded in the details of the neural intervention.

The interesting question is where is the line on the spectrum between verbal explanations and direct neural intervention, at which such an understanding becomes impossible to impart?
Still using Django, but now I’m using react for front end. This made it a lot easier for me to create a clean modern looking UI.
I have a friend that incurred massive medical debts in college when their (college-provided) insurance refused to cover services rendered at the (college) hospital. The college then made all sorts of threats like “you won’t be able to graduate until this $$,$$$ bill is paid!!!”. Keep in mind my friend was only able to attend college on a full scholarship as a result of coming from a poor ESL family.

They ignored all the threats, the department in charge of threatening seemingly didn’t talk to the department in charge of graduation, and to this day (5 years later) they still receive near-daily letters in the mail requesting payment. I can’t say I find my friend’s actions unethical in the slightest.

Ah! The UC system…
If you like the styling of an older car there are plenty of conversion kits for a variety of torque/kilowatt outputs, sans batteries. Ford already sells factory kits, wiring harness and all. The downside is you're taking care of the fragile minutia of an older car, such as combating shock tower mount rust or the plastic gearing of the window mechanism. I'd still happily put up with 3D printing or machining a small, broken, long out of stock part than put up with all the forced technological integration of modern market EVs, though.
yes...I do not trust the claims of any single observational study. Using observational studies is necessary to help understand a problem in preparation for well-conducted large randomized clinical trials (RCTs). Sometime RCTs are not ethical or feasible (like etiological studies of cancer), and then we need many observational studies in different settings and using different designs showing a large effect that cannot be explained by known or unknown confounders and supported by many experimental studies (e.g., in cells). And even then we accept the results on the principle that is better to be safe than sorry. Many observational studies claimed that HRT protect women from heart disease until the definitive trial was done and it was found HRT actually increases the risk of heart disease!! Hundreds of other examples exist of well-researched and widely accepted hypotheses that turned out to be false in RCTs. For every observational study that claims X causes Y, I could find one that claims that X protects against Y, that X has nothing to do with Y, that Y causes X, that there is no X and no Y.. etc. It is the Wild West of science.
> How?

Here's an example that could be achievable without needing to be a super high wealth individual, but does require being able to pay a few thousand dollars up front with little notice.

Let's say you get hit with a $3,500 medical bill. The hospital says they're willing to reduce it by 20% ($700) if you pay up front so now your bill is $2,800.

Now, let's say you rarely use credit cards and a major bank will give you $750 cash as a bonus if you spend $4,000 in 3 months. With the medical bill and regular spending you can hit that without making any "extra" purchases.

You could sign up for that card, immediately pay off the $2,800 to avoid paying any interest on the card and once you get the cashback bonus it's really like paying $2,050 instead of $3,500. Now you can take that $1,500 you saved, invest it at 5% for 15 years and with compounding interest you get back +$1,500 profit (minus taxes) which essentially means your medical bill was $500.

Of course this requires luck and timing around being able to do that with the card but even if you didn't have the card bonus you can get a guaranteed 20% return in 1 year by paying it off. The alternative is paying the full amount in smaller payments. Technically a lot of hospitals don't charge interest and give you reasonable plans to pay it off but most other places will charge you interest.
At the large well known company where we worked we joked that we paid our +1s some money to sit through the course around diversity.
In the introduction. He then has paragraphs such as:

> Let’s say this represents volatility over your life. Not just market volatility, but life world and life volatility: recessions, wars, divorces, illness, moves, floods, changes of heart, etc.

And further down:

> I hope to be around for another 50 years. What are the odds that during those 50 years I will experience one or more of the following: Wars, recessions, terrorist attacks, pandemics, bad political decisions, family emergencies, unforeseen health crises, career transitions, wayward children, and other mishaps?

Not sure how many businesses experience divorce, family emergencies, career transitions, wayward children.
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